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Turnips

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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We have never paid the attention to different varieties of this root which it deserves and receives abroad. The rensoa aiay be tl,at in the northern Staten where their culture has been most exten ded, and where we find the most careful culture ia uil respects, we eau not fted them off upon ihe giound, as is the custom in Englaud, where most variolies are allowed to oceupv the grouod until thus cocsumed. ïhe vatieties most gen erally cultivated, and perhaps the best, all tilinga considered, are the Purple-top Strap leaf, which is flat, and the Cowhorn, (Vertus' Long white), which is a long root, standing a good deal . out of the ground ; both are fuvorit.io field varieties, the latter seldoiu seen in New York market. The Yellow stone and Golden-ball are each excellent and haudsonie, aud the Swedes (1 utabagas) are all valuable, even if sowed rither late, tbough, of course, these ought to have a long season. For table use in winter and spring, yellow or white rutabagas eowed in July are preferable to those put in in Juae, if they grow quickly, for they are lesa rank, and moro marrowy. _ The last week iu Juiy is usually the time chosen fersowing turnips.. (Swed ish turnips may be sowed any me after the middle of June.) The best rule in regard to thequantity of seed is to sowas littk as you can, a pound and a lialf to the acre is an abimdaiioe. Drilled 18 inches apart they do better thau if sowed broadcaat, though tliis is the method w.th cominon turuipa. if the sowing be de laycd until August, eveu late in the month, and severe weather hülds off until the 25th of November,-" Thauksing time " in England- a good return may be expected. Turuipi do their growing and filling out, in eool weather after frost, aud ara only injured by such freezingas entirely cuts down iheir leaves ad freezes the ground hurd. The best returns are gained from rutabagaa sowed about the middle of June, the drills being put far enough apart to give the cul tivator room to go herween the rows. Sowed lato there are fewer weeds, tho roots do not grovv so large nor reqaire bo muoh room, and so t&e drills may be much nearer. - American Agriculturul. A machine in Biidgeport, Connccticut, makes a puir oí lady's shues in fif. teen minutes. Substitutes are quoted in New York at $600, with an "upward tendency." 8x inches of snow were deposited at the White Mountains week beifore last. Hay costs the goverotnent $24 per Iüd in Maine The rea! estáte ƒ Franco is valiied at $M3,60O,U00,00O, atwá the personal property at $24,000,000,000. The new Eussian railwav, whioh is to connect Moscow with" Sebastopol as a free port, wili cost L2-1,000,000. Boarders will be very much nterested to learn that savv dust is conidered to be the fino.st kiud vL feonrd. JefF. Duvis ssys that "the last tio i pevered." Prentice says he hasn't fi his last "Lie" yet, and he wn't fe ble to sevor it whon he does get it. The New York correspondent of the Chicago Journhí, ayS Frernoflt wíU be tendered the Uuisn oinination fi# Cxovernor of the State of New York with the nnderstMNding that he withdraws frera the Presidential canvass. Sidncy defended Eixliel) benevolece to be a strong impulse on the pan' of A, when he seos E ir. distreíi tt compel C to help them."

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